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Book of the week: Lake Views
Graham Farmelo delights in a top physicist's views on science, policy and faith
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Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
Nurturing gifted employees will benefit workers and employers - it makes sense to David Orford
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Disturbances of the Mind
In this cleverly constructed book, several of the puzzles of present-day neurology are considered alongside accounts of the lives and times of those with whom they are eponymously associated....
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The Canon: The History of Britain. By John Milton
Not only do we not know what the future holds; often we have little idea what the past holds. For Francis Bacon: "Time is like a river, which has brought down to us things light and puffed up, while...
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Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
Hidden victims of Stalinist suppression are revealed, finds Harold Shukman
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Stuff
Daniel Miller's Stuff brings together in one compact volume a deftly rewritten and engaging retrospective summary of 30 years of cultural anthropology carried out in the Caribbean, London, India and...
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Justice, Legality and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Pitcairn Prosecutions
This work's narrow focus misses women's suffering and lack of redress, argues Rosemary Hunter
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingCLASSICS- New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to AntinoosBy Christopher P. Jones, George Martin Lane professor of the Classics and of history, Harvard University. Harvard...
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Participation would fall if fees rise without extra aid
First submissions to review of fees and finance describe how costs affect applications. Melanie Newman reports
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'There be wolves' - shock claim
Lord Mandelson's insistence that universities were merely "crying wolf" over the impact of the new funding cuts would appear to be contradicted by the recent experience of our Director of Finance, Mr...
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It's hardly the Dark Ages
Alan Ryan favours imagination over exaggeration when it comes to cutbacks
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Research intelligence: Feeding of the nine billion needs science, not miracles
A collaborative strategy will prioritise research into how to feed an expanding population. Neha Popat reports
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Leader: Is survival all that matters?
The financial crisis will force universities to make difficult choices not just about how they operate but to what end